Benjamin H. Harrel
Home Town: Indianapolis, IN
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Benjamin H. Harrel, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Consenvoye, France, October 10, 1918. Upon discovering an enemy machine-gun nest beyond the objective, on his own initiative Sergeant Harrel crawled out with two men, and though subjected to heavy fire flanked the position, captured the machine gun and 31 prisoners, one of them an officer, killing two of the enemy who tried to escape.
